Banished From the Pack (Rejected Mate Book 1) by Alexa B. James & Calinda B

Author:Alexa B. James & Calinda B [James, Alexa B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2021-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Luna

I race through the trees around the triplet’s house, my head spinning with confusion. I don’t remember coming here, and I haven’t left since waking in their bed. I don’t know where I am or how to get home. Nothing smells familiar. Nowhere feels safe. My shredded heart can’t take the pain of life anymore.

I hear a snap of a twig and spin around. A huge, dark shape rockets across the carpet of pine needles, straight for me. I scream and start to shift into a wolf, but the shape blurs into a man and catches me before I can. He wraps his arms around me, the shock of his huge, hot body against mine knocking the breath from me and replacing it with pure panic. I writhe in his arms, screams tearing from me.

“Luna, stop,” he commands fiercely. “It’s just me.”

I stop screaming when his words cut through my haze of panic, and I realize it’s just Callan.

“Let me go!” I shove at his chest to no effect. He’s as strong as he looks, like a tree has imprisoned me in its unbreakable limbs.

“Are you going to run?” His golden eyes captivate me.

“Of course I’m going to run!” I bite his shoulder, kicking my legs.

“Fucking stop, Luna,” he snaps, his arms still wrapped tightly around me. “I’m not going to hurt you.”

“You’ve already hurt me,” I snap back.

His grip loosens instantly, but he doesn’t release me. “We didn’t know, pet,” he says quietly. “I just need you to listen to me for a second. If you don’t like what I have to say, you can run.”

There’s a warmth emanating from his eyes that does strange things to my insides, and being pressed up against him while neither of us are dressed makes a strange ache grow in my lower belly, like it did when Axel touched me in the shower.

I nod my head, and he releases his embrace and steps back, palms out, his feet making soft noises in the pine needles. He’s huge like a giant, his thighs as powerful as top half of his body, and he has the same meat stick as Axel, but his hangs down instead of standing up. He’s still close enough that his warmth touches me while the early morning sunlight filtering through the boughs softly lights his rugged features.

“Go on,” I say, swallowing past a quivery feeling in my throat.

“We moved out here when the pack banished us, too,” he says. “We got each other, and that’s about it. Truth be told, we weren’t looking to change that. But having you here for just a few days… Well, it shook us up, that’s all.”

I cross my arms across my chest, trying to hold back the tears that want to come again. “I don’t want to cause problems. Not between the three of you. I know what it’s like to have only one person you can count on. I wouldn’t have liked anyone coming in and getting between me and Mama, either.

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